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Early WOTY Nominees

The early nominations have been posted for the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year selection. ADS members who specialize in following language trends, including Visual Thesaurus executive producer Ben Zimmer, have submitted their lists of nominees. Read all about it here.
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Vocabulary:
The Post-Dictionary World?
A "Dumpster Fire" of a Year
Language:
Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
Brand Names of the Year for 2021
Words:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse